This being practically another was of blaming what the press for months has been calling Count Uchida's "vacillation" for the growth of a feeling in China hostile to span, the Foreign XM Sater lost his temper and replied that Chinese ward Japan had been vse since 1915. The 1915 acted like the sts the fire ablaze, suring 1915 that the as Lwenty-One Demands were made to China and the Kenseikai was then in power. Mr. Mochizuki winced at the deliberate thrust and replied that if the Foreign Minister was referring to the 1915 Treaties, he should also remember that the Cabinet in which he holds a portfolio nearly annulled the treaties, leaving but three articles <xtant. He wound up witl "Since you have gone so far in yielding to the Chinese, why did you not accept the demand of the Chinese for the retiocessién to them of Dairen and Port Arthur too; The Foreign Minister replied that the demand was not of a nature to be acceded to, and Mr. Mochizuki kept on asking: "Why not?"
By this time both politicians were far from cool and the Japanese papers declare that only the fact that it would have been a national scandal prevented them from settling who was right in the schoolboy way. Mr. Mochizuki insisted that the Foreign Minister should not re-for to the year 1915, for though it might afford the Seryukai (Ministerialist) party copsiderable amusement to taunt the Kenseikai, yet such mention would only encourage *China's impertinence." (The dialogue finally ended with the Kenseikai man asking the Foreign Minister to promise that steps would be taken to uphold Japan's national prestige, which the Foreign Minister readily did. (Thus face was saved on both sides and the newspaper world of Japan afforded an interesting and, for Japan, very rare story.
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